November 27, 2007

Personality vs. Politics

stop trying to find politicians who appear personally sympathetic to the plight of people in need and start trying to find politicians who are politically committed to a policy agenda that will help needy people.

We may part ways at the point where I say the best way to help the needy is to restore their political liberty to administer their own affairs and cut the subsidy strings. But, gasp, that's actually a disagreement that merits and indeed requires genuine political argument, instead of the endless emo-wank that powers the group grope that's replaced it today.